Lost Gen/Boomers (Echo) LamentBorn between 1930 – 1979

First, we survived being born to mothersWho smoked and/or drank while they werePregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing,Tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in babycribs covered with bright colored lead-base paints.We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles,Locks on doors or cabinets and when we rodeOur bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.

As infants & children,We would ride in cars with no car seats,No booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires andsometimes no brakes.

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!

• Riding in the back of a pick-up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

• We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.

• We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one actually died from this.

• We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter and bacon.• We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar.• And, we weren't overweight.• WHY?• Because we were always outside

playing...that's why!

Why?• We would leave home in the morning and play all day,• As long as we were back when the streetlights came on.• No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were O.K.• We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps

and then ride them down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

• We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's and X-boxes.• There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable,• No video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's,• No cell phones, no iPods, no personal computers, no

Internet and no chat rooms. • WE HAD FRIENDS.

And we went outside and found them!• We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth• And there were no lawsuits from these accidents.• We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt,• And the worms did not live in us forever.

• We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,• Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and,• Although we were told it would happen, we did not

put out very many eyes.

• We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and• Knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just• Walked in and talked to them.

Imagine that!!• Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the

team.• Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.

• The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of they actually sided with the law!

• These generations have produced some of the best• Risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever.

• The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

• We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

If YOU are one of them? CONGRATULATIONS!

The World We Lived InTry and get away with these

ideas today!

So . . . How does this quick attitude study affect how you think, act and manager others?